The Federal Antimonopoly service of Russia has proposed to the government to require manufacturers of smartphones and computers to preinstall the Russian application. This was told to the edition “Kommersant”.
The law must prepare by April 2019. For the development of the draft law will meet the Ministry of communications in collaboration with FAS and Rospotrebnadzor.
The law will implement requirements for pre-installation on smartphones and computers domestic counterparts browsers, mail, music players and other applications. The initiative is included in the final version of the developed FAS “road map” for the development of competition in 2018-2020.
In addition, according to FAS manufacturers should provide the option to remove preinstalled apps, except for service.